Ngày soạn: 20/09/2015 Ngày dạy:
The 38th period
UNIT 7: WORLD POPULATION
A. Reading
Time: 45 minutes

I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: students should know about world population.
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand more about the world population.
- Language:
- New words: Words related to world population.
3. Skills: Guessing meaning in context, and passage comprehension
II. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: Textbook, some photos
IV. Procedure:

Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities

Warm-up: (5 minutes)
- Ask students to close the book and play game named GUESSING WORDS.
- Show the pictures as prompts to help students.







- Require students to work in pairs, study the picture in the textbook and answer the question:
“Do you think a family with so many children is usually rich or poor?”

Lead in: Today we are learning about world population.
Before you read : (7 minutes)
- Ask students to scan the passage and find out new words.
- Elicit students the meanings of new words.
- Give meanings of new words if necessary.












- Read vocabularies first to make model and then ask students to repeat in chorus several times.
- Call on some students to read out vocabularies in front of the class.
- Correct errors in pronunciation.

While you read : (23 minutes)
- Ask students to look through the passage and read in silence
- Help students read the passage
Task 1 :
- Ask students to do task 1
- Let students work individual or in groups
- Help students if necessary




Task 2:
- Ask students to read the passage again then look through the questions and underline key words.
- Divide the whole class into two big groups and let them play the game named LUCKY COUNTRY.
- Introduce the rule of the game.
- Ask students to take turn choose the pictures and answer the questions.

- Tell other group to give comment and give correct answers.
- Give present to the winner.












After you read : (8 minutes)
- Ask students to work in groups to find out the words basing on the suggestions.

- Go around helping the groups when necessary.
- Call on some groups to give their answers.
- Listen to students and correct mistakes

Consolidation: (1 minute)
- Summarize the main points of the lesson.
- Remind students to focus on the main points of the passage.
Home work: (1 minute)
- Ask students to do Reading exercise of Unit 7 in workbook and prepare Part B: Speaking at home.


- Listen to the teacher, look at the pictures and guess the words.
- Suggested answers:
+ population explosion
+ poverty
+ homeless
+ shortage of foods
+ lack of schools
+ unemployment
--> The main cause of these problems is the increase of population.
- Work in pair and give their own opinion.





- Listen to the teacher and open the book – Unit 7, part A: reading

- Scan the passage and find out new words.

- Guess the meanings of new words basing on pictures.
- Take notes.


- Listen and repeat the words several times in chorus.

- Read out vocabularies in front of the class.

- Correct errors in pronunciation with teacher.

- Read the passage in silence.



- Listen to the teacher then do task 1.
- Ask the teacher if necessary.
- Work individual or in group.
- Write down in the notebook.
Suggested answers:
1. Although 2. method 3. increases
4. resources 5. figures 6. limit
7. international 8, control

- Look through the questions and underline key words.

- Divide into two big groups and play the game.

- Listen to the teacher carefully.
Listen to the teacher
- Take turn, choose the countries and then answer the questions.
- Take notes the answers

Suggested answer:
1. The population of the world in 10,000 BC was 10 million. In 1750 it was 6225 million; in 1850 it was 1300 million ,in 1950 it was 2510 million....(paragraph 1)
2. By the year 2015 the population of the world is expected to be over 7 billion (last line, paragraph 1)
3. Some scientists say it can ,but others say it can’t (line